ICC Awards 2008

[FBU]

9th August 2007 to 12 August 2008

Player of the Year
Chanderpaul - Tests 91.00 - ODIs 74.75
Smith - Tests 56.76 - ODIs 52.35
Jayawardene - Tests 75.13 - ODIs 26.52
Steyn - Tests 86 at 18.10 - ODIs 9 at 37.00

Test Player of the Year
Shivnarine Chanderpaul - 91.00
Mahela Jayawardene - 75.13
Jacques Kallis- 57.86
Dale Steyn 86 at 18.10

ODI Player of the Year
Nathan Bracken - 34 at 23.14
Mahendra Singh Dhoni - 49.92
Sachin Tendulkar - 46.78
Mohammad Yousuf - 68.29

Emerging Player of the Year
Stuart Broad - Tests 24 at 43.31 - ODIs 35 at 28.85
Ajantha Mendis - Tests 26 at 18.38 - ODIs 20 at 10.25
Morne Morkel - Test 29 at 32.44 - ODIs 12 at 24.41
Ishant Sharma - Tests 22 at 35.63 - ODIs 22 at 29.86

 

[bryce]

The only change i'd make to the above would be Steyn as Test player of the year, with Chanderpaul as overall player of the year. Steyn stood out head and shoulders above all other quicks in the Test match season, and his mixture of extreme pace and late swing was a breath of fresh air

 

[FBU]

The only change i'd make to the above would be Steyn as Test player of the year, with Chanderpaul as overall player of the year. Steyn stood out head and shoulders above all other quicks in the Test match season, and his mixture of extreme pace and late swing was a breath of fresh air

That would be a good idea.

 

[Sanz]

Any Reason Why Sehwag isn't nominated in Test player of the Year award ?

1000 Runs @ 71.57 & 10 Wickets @ 22.80

 

[Xuhaib]

Any Reason Why Sehwag isn't nominated in Test player of the Year award ?

1000 Runs @ 71.57 & 10 Wickets @ 22.80

Because 700 of those runs were scored in 3 innings.

 

[Top_Cat]

Still can't believe Pattinson never got a look-in

Give the others a chance, will you?

Cricketer of the Year: Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Dale Steyn, Mahela Jayawardene, Graeme Smith
Test Player of the Year: Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Dale Steyn, Mahela Jayawardene, Jacques Kallis
ODI Player of the Year: Nathan Bracken, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Sachin Tendulkar, Mohammad Yousuf
Emerging Player of the Year: Stuart Broad, Ajantha Mendis, Ishant Sharma, Morne Morkel
Associate Player of the Year: Ryan ten Doeschate, Alex Obanda, Niall O'Brien, Thomas Odoyo
Twenty20 International Performance of the Year: Chris Gayle, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Brett Lee, Yuvraj Singh
Women's Player of the Year: Lisa Sthalekar, Charlotte Edwards, Claire Taylor, Nicola Browne
Spirit of Cricket: Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, West Indies
Umpire of the Year: Simon Taufel, Mark Benson, Aleem Dar, Steve Davis, Rudi Koertzen

No Lee for Test player or cricketer of the year award is ridiculous, though. Seriously, it's a joke.

 

[bryce]

Bracken ODI player of the year? Haha, suppose there were no other Aussies Found this on CricInfo, surely must be in the same time frame as the nominations were based on..

Most Test runs 2008
Most Test wickets 2008
Most ODI runs 2008
Most ODI wickets 2008

 

[bryce]

Pretty safe to say Edwards of England will win womens player of the year too. In 2008 ODI's she scored 494 runs@61.75 and took 15 wickets@16.86. I used to go to school with Nicola Browne, not sure how she managed to get a nomination though..

 

[Precambrian]

Because 700 of those runs were scored in 3 innings.

That logic is faulty. All his runs were against top quality opposition too. Why should be he penalised for scoring more runs per innings?

 

[bryce]

That logic is faulty. All his runs were against top quality opposition too. Why should be he penalised for scoring more runs per innings?

Well the ICC haven't always been the most logical bunch. Sehwag definately should have got a Test nominaton over Jayawardene/Kallis. I don't think those time frames on my links are directly realted to the award category though soz

 

[Athlai]

Bit disappointed at Southee not getting the emerging nomination and McCullum not getting a ODI player one.

 

[bryce]

Bit disappointed at Southee not getting the emerging nomination and McCullum not getting a ODI player one.

Yeah, but Southee didn't play many games compared to the rest. He will qualify for next year you would think

 

[pskov]

Cricketer of the Year: Graeme Smith
Test Player of the Year: Shivnarine Chanderpaul
ODI Player of the Year: Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Emerging Player of the Year: Ajantha Mendis

 

[Precambrian]

Cricketer of the Year : S Chanderpaul

Test Player : Dale Steyn

ODI player : Sachin Tendulkar (until SL series, he was ranking higher than Dhoni + he averages much higher than Dhoni in "important" matches (Read less Hongkong, UAE etc)

Emerging Player : Mendis (Were nominations necessary?)

 

[NZTailender]

Aug 1st - July 31st according to wiki.

Any Reason Why Sehwag isn't nominated in Test player of the Year award ?

1000 Runs @ 71.57 & 10 Wickets @ 22.80

Bracken ODI player of the year? Haha, suppose there were no other Aussies Found this on CricInfo, surely must be in the same time frame as the nominations were based on..

Most Test runs 2008
Most Test wickets 2008
Most ODI runs 2008
Most ODI wickets 2008

Well the ICC haven't always been the most logical bunch. Sehwag definately should have got a Test nominaton over Jayawardene/Kallis. I don't think those time frames on my links are directly realted to the award category though soz

Bit disappointed at Southee not getting the emerging nomination and McCullum not getting a ODI player one.

The actual time frame:
Test runs
Test wickets
ODI runs
ODI wickets

Not too much at fault in the ICC's nominations, except I'd probably nominate five players as opposed to four.

 

[bryce]

Cheers for that Kallis & Jayawardene definately deserved their nominations. No question Brett Lee done enough to warrant nomination of cricketer of the year. Have revised my picks after reading that

Cricketer of the Year: Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Test Player of the Year: Jaques Kallis
ODI Player of the Year: Mohammad Yousuf

 

[Flem274*]

Hope we don't win the spirit of cricket one tbh. Its too bloody patronising and the only teams that always play nice are the minnows anyway. Pointless award.

 

[Top_Cat]

Hope we don't win the spirit of cricket one tbh. Its too bloody patronising and the only teams that always play nice are the minnows anyway. Pointless award.

Yeah it's a bit 'everybody gets a trophy day' isnt' it?

 

[_Ed_]

Yeah, definitely. It's one we're always nominated for as well, as a nice "sorry you didn't get any other nominations" gesture.

 

[GIMH]

Hope we don't win the spirit of cricket one tbh. Its too bloody patronising and the only teams that always play nice are the minnows anyway. Pointless award.

I dunno, in 2005 we had the joint player of the year, the ODI player of the year, the emerging player of the year, & Flintoff & Pietersen named in world XIs but we also took home the spirit of cricket award. I don't think it necessarily is a token award. I'm sure Ricky Ponting would have had some words to say about us taking the 05 award mind you - and I'm sure Burgey would as well